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Asset Name:
E009180 - Parikh, Amarish Jagmohan (1934 - 2014)
Title:
Parikh, Amarish Jagmohan (1934 - 2014)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E009180
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-07-27

2019-11-27
Description:
Obituary for Parikh, Amarish Jagmohan (1934 - 2014), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Parikh, Amarish Jagmohan
Date of Birth:
2 March 1934
Place of Birth:
Umreth, Gujarat State, India
Date of Death:
2014
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS Gujarat 1957

FRCS Edin 1962

FRCS 1962
Details:
Amarish Jagmohan Parikh was a surgeon who lived and worked in Ahmedabad, India. He was born in Umreth in Gujarat State, India on 2 March 1934, the seventh child and fourth son of Jagmohan Lalbhai Parikh, a civil judge, and Saraswati Parikh née Chokshi. He attended the Government High School, Nadiad, Gujarat and then studied at the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad and at the B J Medical College, also in Ahmedabad. He graduated in 1957, first in the final MB BS and winning all the college and university prizes, scholarships and gold medals. He went to the UK, where he gained his fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England in 1962. He returned to Ahmedabad, where he was a member of the managing committee of the Ahmedabad Medical Society from 1967 to 1969 and secretary of the Ahmedabad Surgical Society in 1968. Outside medicine he enjoyed swimming, badminton, chess and reading. In 1960, he married Tarla Kotdawala, a doctor. They had three sons. Parikh died in 2014.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009100-E009199
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